MySQL Bugs: #12822: RPM Installation on SuSE 8.1 fails due to wrong dependencies

Bug #12822	RPM Installation on SuSE 8.1 fails due to wrong dependencies
Submitted:	26 Aug 2005 7:12	Modified:	27 Sep 2005 20:36
Reporter:	Dino Tsoumakis	Email Updates:
Status:	Won't fix	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Server	Severity:	S3 (Non-critical)
Version:	MySQL-server-4.1.14-0.i386.rpm	OS:	Linux (SuSE 8.1 (2.4.21-273-default))
Assigned to:	Lenz Grimmer	CPU Architecture:	Any

Description:
Installation of the MySQL-server-4.1.14-0.i386.rpm fails on SuSE Linux 8.1 due to wrong dependencies (Mybe beacause of Bug #12233).
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lx180:/projects/rd/mysql/MySQL-4.1.14 # rpm -Uvh MySQL-server-4.1.14-0.i386.rpm
error: failed dependencies:
        coreutils is needed by MySQL-server-4.1.14-0
        procps is needed by MySQL-server-4.1.14-0
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There are no coreutils and procps available on SuSE 8.1. Only the individual packages for fileutils, shareutils, textutils,... are available and installed.

As a workaround installation works fine with --nodeps option set.

How to repeat:
Try to install on SuSE 8.1:
rpm -Uvh MySQL-server-4.1.14-0.i386.rpm
error: failed dependencies:
        coreutils is needed by MySQL-server-4.1.14-0
        procps is needed by MySQL-server-4.1.14-0

Suggested fix:
In case of SuSE 8.1 dependencies for coreutils and procps should be replaced by the individual packages (e.g. fileutils, shareutils, textutils, ps,...)

Verified w/Suse 8

It's almost impossible to come up with a "Requires:" line that does not cause a conflict one one or the other distribution. The current line is an attempt to satisfy most of the dependencies for the most popular recent distributions.

Sorry, but we're not going to change this again to support SUSE 8.1 (which is now around 3 years old and no longer supported by SUSE themselves) - please use the "--nodeps" option in this case. More recent SUSE versions provide the currently listed requirements and should not cause any dependency conflicts.

Bad news. :-(
We are running over 1.000 installations world wide. It's impossible for use to update all systems to a newer OS.

Sorry to hear that, but I hope you can understand that this is problematic for us to do. If you can not use "--nodeps" in your environment, how about installing a dummy RPM package that will fulfil the required dependencies? Below is an example on how to do that:

[SNIP]
Name: dummydeps
Version: 0.1
Release: 0
License: GPL
Group: System
Requires: fileutils sharutils textutils ps
Provides: coreutils procps
Buildarch: noarch
Summary: A virtual package to fulfil dependencies
%description
This package is just a dummy package to satisfy RPM dependencies that actually
are fulfilled.
%files
[SNIP]

Save this as "/usr/src/packages/SPECS/dummydeps.spec" and build it by running "rpm -ba /usr/src/packages/SPECS/dummydeps.spec". The resulting package will be in /usr/src/packages/RPMS/noarch/dummydeps-0.1-0.noarch.rpm. As you can see, it requires the
"old" package names as they are installed on SuSE 8.1 and will provide theas as the package names required by the MySQL server RPMs. If you install this dummydeps-0.1-0.noarch.rpm package on your 8.1 system, the requirements for the MySQL-Server package should be fulfilled and you should be able to install it without having to use "--nodeps".

Ok. Thank you. I will try that.